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Bill Wynne
When big companies can lose money they try to stop information from leaking to the public. The relationship between dairy and acne is having a slow start but it is starting to be better understood. This could mean the loss of millions of dollars and so it will be fought like the introduction of the food pyramid, replacing the old four foods groups that left you with the impression, consciously or not, that 50% of your diet should be made up of animal products. Do you know who provided the four food group concept to Americans? Would it surprise you if I told you it was the meat and dairy industry. Did you ever get a chance to see the illustration of two nurses with mops in a room that appears to be flooding with water? Soon you will see the skin on the back wall with the faucet open and water overflowing and flooding the floor. The illustration is simple and perhaps funny but the principle, when understood, is life changing. This truth is taught with many illustrations, another one being that of laying the axe to the root to stop a plant from growing instead of just chopping it down only to find that the sprouts continue to come up. Dr. A thirty year dermatologist named Dr. Danby has shown the direct correlation between dairy and acne. The dairy industry is a commercial business, they sell milk and so the more milk they can produce the better. For an increase in milk production cows are artificially inseminated to keep them pregnant and producing milk. At birth, the calf is taken away so the cow's milk can be gathered and sold for human consumption. In milk there are a number of unhealthful ingredients but that which is most detrimental to acne and pimples are the hormones. The hormones that are in the mama cow's milk is for the baby cow to grow fast. These hormones mimic testosterone, which has been proven to overstimulate the sebaceous glands into secreting more sebum than is needed causing more acne. The excess sebum is not able to leave the skin pore and as dead skin combines with it the pore clogs. It is in this pore that has been clogged by sebum and dead skin cells that the propionibacterium acnes bacteria multiply. The presence of these bacteria attract white blood cells that inadvertently damage the follicle lining allowing the pus to travel to the epidermis causing a pimple or zit. I suggest that for a minimum of thirty days you abstain from all dairy products to see if your acne gets better. Products like milk, cheese, yogurt, ice cream and prepared foods that have dairy in them. The terms "Hormone Free" and "Organic" do not mean that the naturally occurring hormones in cow's milk that induce acne are absent. Removing dairy from your diet may be a big change but there is plenty of support to make a switch like that and will address concerns about calcium requirements and more so you feel comfortable to make a switch that will improve the complexion of your skin.
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